whether my hidden identity was really the only secret sitting inside our marriage.
PART 3
The lease had been approved nine months earlier.
I discovered that the next morning while Leo slept against my chest and Dad drank tea across the kitchen table.
Sterling Urban Holdings operated through multiple regional divisions. Smaller commercial leases never reached Dad personally. Asset managers and legal reviewed them before regional management signed.
Ordinarily, that meant nothing.
Except the manager who approved Mercer & Lane’s lease was Julian Cross.
I knew Julian.
Not closely.
But
